Jon Hickey

So excited to be included jn this! Thanks to @pw.org!

In our 25th annual #FirstFiction feature, we spotlight five debut fiction writers you’ll want to know! Delve into the captivating literary worlds of Sarah Yahm, @jonvhickey.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, @aaronjohncurtis.bsky.social, and @jemmawei.bsky.social: at.pw.org/FirstFiction2025

What’s on Your Summer Reading List? | KQED We’ll talk about new releases, old favorites and classics that have earned their place on your bookshelf.

Our own event manager, Kar Johnson, will be on @kqedforum.bsky.social tomorrow morning to talk summer reading recs! Tune in at 9am!
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Eye test aside, best seat in the house.

The Best Debut Books of 2025 (So Far)

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😂 seems normal

This sounds like the heavily researched book version of every conversation I’ve had with my brothers over the last 35 years

Eight titles spread on a table, from top left: Tilt by Emma Pattee, Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie by James Lee Burke, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen volumes 1-5, Big Chief by Jon Hickey, Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire, Banned Together edited by Ashley Hope Perez, Come as You Are by Dahlia Adler, and This Moth Saw Brightness by A.A. Vacharat.

Eight books spread on a table, from top left: The Good Death by Suzanne B. O'Brien, RN, Empty Vessel by Ian Kumekawa, Help! My Kid Hates Writing by Julie Bogart, In the Bone-Cracking Cold by M. Bartley Seigel, New Camp Cookbook On the Trail by Emily Vikre, The Adult Chair by Michelle Chalfant, Permission by Elissa Altman, and Great American Marine Corps Stories edited by Tom McCarthy.

Five picture books spread on a table from top left: Rap It Up! by Carole and Jeffrey Boston Weatherford with Ernel Martinez, Another Word for Neighbor by Angela Pham Krans with Thai My Phuong, Kitty Camp by Drew Brockington, Cousins! by Laura Lavoie with Luisa Leal, and Bear and Bird The Cave and Other Stories by Jarvis.

Eight graphic novels on a table from top left: Power Rangers Prime volume one, Moonshadow, Polar Vortex (5 copies for upcoming bookclub), in the center is Family Force V volume 1, bottom row from left starts with Thundercats Cheetara, Boruto Two Blue Vortex volumes one and two, and Tokyo Alien Bros. volume two.

Gotta ❤️ ANOTHER #newbooksday at the library! #librarylife 💙📚
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Amazing rec! Thanks @judicialjunkie.bsky.social!

“This shirt is dry clean only. That means, it is dirty.”

WANT. Can’t wait to get into this!

It’s interesting to watch Get Back, which was filmed while TMC was being filmed. Peter Sellers shows up for an awkward hang with the band. Really think the explanation is drugs + toxic levels of fame = this

That movie’s Peter Sellers’ ego + the end of swinging London on pharmaceutical-grade coke. It was going to get weird

This week @ City Lights LIVE!

🟣 5/6, 7pm: @hzeavin.bsky.social w/ Juliana Spahr
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🔶 5/7, 6pm: @jonvhickey.bsky.social w/ @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social
@simonandschuster.bsky.social

🟦 5/8, 7pm: @sarahschulman.bsky.social w/ @caroderobertis.bsky.social
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

Yessss! Can’t wait!

Five incredible books edited by Toni Morrison. Header image via Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) This month, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is reissuing a spiky, forgotten jewel of a book. You may not know the author by na…

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social rounds up five iconic books edited by Toni Morrison.

Review | ‘Big Chief’ is a sly debut about drama in Native American politics Jon Hickey’s novel follows a tribal president and his Ivy League-educated lawyer-slash-fixer in the days before an election.

BIG CHIEF slyly makes it into the Washington Post book review!

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Big Chief I just reviewed Big Chief by Jon Hickey

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went to Barcelona & wrote about it for Travel + Leisure, & the piece is out in this month’s issue

Jon Hickey's author photo--overlayed in the lower lefthand corner is the cover for Big Chief, a Letters in the Mail logo on top. To the right in bold white capital letters is the name Jon Hickey.

“Once the Earth is toast, will someone rebuild it?”

Our next letter in the mail comes from author @jonvhickey.bsky.social. Jon’s letter recounts a family vacation turned existential, and explores the roles of hope and writing in rebuilding the world.

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Check out Kyle Edwards writing about a small-town hockey tournament and his novel SMALL CEREMONIES! Then, you know, get the book too

BIG CHIEF got a nod from the New York Times Book Review!

BIG CHIEF hits the shelves in London at @waterstones.bsky.social!

I shared my TBR pile with Lit Hub!

Photo of book Big Chief by Jon Hickey

IT'S HERE!!!! So incredibly happy for my old friend Jon Hickey!

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Absolutely had to get a copy of this one! @jonvhickey.bsky.social #BigChief

"The great Native American political novel. A tremendous debut."
#ScribnerBooks

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hello, the editors have picked my shortish GR essay about Polaroids and death for you to read

Means a lot from this guy, who was the cool writing guy I looked up to back in undergrad times (and still do 😀 but would never admit it)

Signing BIG CHIEF at City Lights! Dream come true!

Signing books at Green Apple in San Francisco!